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  • Higher education meet at VB today

    Santiniketan: Directors, vice-chancellors and principals of around 377 higher education institutes from the eastern and northeastern zone of the country will participate in a conference — VIKAS 2025 — at Visva-Bharati on Friday. The zonal conference, to be held ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Sukanta faces ‘go back’ slogans in Diamond Harbour

    Kolkata: BJP senior and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar faced "go back" slogans on Thursday when his convoy was halted in Diamond Harbour. Some of the agitators who tried to stop Majumdar were wearing saffron scarves and shouting "Jai Shri ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Doctor saves flyer mid-air

    Kolkata: A doctor travelling on an IndiGo flight from Jaipur to Kolkata on Wednesday revived a passenger who appeared to have lost consciousness mid-air. The patient was handed to the airport medical team after landing. An airline official said ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Warships for public viewing

    Kolkata: Two of Indian Navy's most potent warships with guided-missile corvettes—INS Khanjar and INS Kora—will be open for public viewing for visitors with Indian photo IDs at Kidderpore Dock Berth 11 (Gate No. 3) between Friday and Sunday. Students ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    1 dead in Malda clash over tilling rights

    183 wordsMalda: A violent clash erupted at a kangaroo court in Kaliachak on Thursday morning, resulting in the death of one individual and leaving six seriously injured.The conflict originated from a dispute between two groups of villagers from Rajnagar ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Vikram Solar to set up 5 GW Vallam plant in TN

    Kolkata: Vikram Solar has announced the commissioning of its state-of-the-art Vallam manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, adding 5 GW of advanced module production capacity. The company now commands a total manufacturing capacity of 9.5 GWCMD Gyanesh Chaudhary said, "This ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol director’s feature debut on influencers to compete at Red Sea film festival

    Kolkata: Kolkata director Priyankar Patra's first feature film, which takes a socio-economic look at the struggling days of influencers and the personal cost they have to pay, will be screened at the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival, in ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    53 holidays for Bengal govt staff in 2026, up by 4 from this year

    Kolkata: Bengal govt employees will enjoy a few more holidays in 2026 than this year. While 2025 has 49 holidays, next year's count is 53, including at least two that are community-specific.The Durga Puja holidays will stretch 12 days, ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Only 4.3% of 6 crore state voters not mapped to 2002 SIR rolls

    Kolkata: In the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, only 4.3% voters could not be mapped till now to the 2002 SIR roll of the state or SIR list of any other state or Union ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    With Isro’s help, this year’s Gangasagar Mela set for major tech upgrade

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt will seek Isro's technical assistance during the 2026 Gangasagar Mela, it was decided at a meeting of officials on Thursday. The fair this year will feature five specialised lighting systems, including fog lights imported from ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata airport: Tech aid for runway’s north end to ease landing amid fog

    Kolkata: As the city braces for winter, flights approaching Kolkata airport from either side—Madhyamgram or New Town—will now be able to land smoothly even amid reduced visibility caused by fog. On Thursday, the airport updated its navigational aids on ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Luggage row: Recalibrate weigh scales, airlines told

    Kolkata: Kolkata airport authorities have asked airlines to recalibrate the weigh scales they use to check the weight of passengers' carry-on luggage to ensure accurate measurement.The message follows a complaint by a flyer of harassment by an airline ground ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Illegal gun goes off in Kasba para, 20-yr-old hurt, friend held

    Kolkata: A 20-year-old resident of Bosepukur Prantik Pally in Kasba was reportedly shot in an arm around 11.30 pm on Wednesday night. The victim was admitted to Ruby General Hospital with a bullet injury in his left hand, said ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Upload all waqf data by Centre’s Dec 5 deadline, Bengal govt tells DMs

    Kolkata: Bengal govt on Thursday asked all district magistrates to stick to Centre's Dec 5 deadline to upload all 82,000 waqf properties across 8,000 waqf estates on the UMEED portal.Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has opposed the amended ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC ‘war rooms’ in city to speed up SIR job by BLAs

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Thursday activated full-scale "war rooms" across the city to speed up booth level agents' uploading of SIR data on the party's Didir Doot app over the next one week.On Thursday, mayor Firhad Hakim visited war ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Auto updates, server issues slow down BLO app, hit SIR data upload

    Kolkata: With 83% digitisation over on Thursday, BLOs across Bengal complained that the BLO app was not working properly as the digitisation reached its last mile. From auto-updates that were slowing down the app to server issues that were ...

    28 November 2025 Times of India
    Hosp told to refund waste disposal, laundry charges

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Wednesday asked a private hospital to refund the charges for laundry and biomedical waste disposal to a patient. The commission not only told the hospital to delete the two heads ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunny skies, pleasant temps, lingering pollution concerns

    On November 27, 2025, Kolkata is experiencing a sunny day with clear skies and a pleasant morning breeze, with temperatures expected to reach a maximum of 28.6°C. This pleasant weather occurs despite yesterday's air quality being categorized as 'poor' ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal cops flag fake video, warn against spreading misinformation

    Kolkata: Bengal Police has issued a warning against circulation of a fake online video amid the ongoing SIR in the state. The video falsely claims to show illegal immigrants leaving Bengal en masse, but cops said it actually depicted ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Premium, lux real-estate market on upward climb

    Kolkata: In Kolkata, the demand for larger units, particularly 3 BHK and 4 BHK configurations, continues to rise. Sales of 4 BHK units grew by 160% and that of 3 BHK units grew by 226% in the past three ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Indian Museum heritage exhibition a living archive of Kol’s memory

    Kolkata: A special exhibition has transformed Indian Museum into a living archive of Kolkata's memory. "Breathing with History", unveiled this week, is an expansive exhibition featuring rare books, artefacts, photographs, textiles, craft traditions, archaeological finds, scientific instruments, and cultural ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘May cancel your bail’: Partha draws court ire as he skips job scam hearing

    Kolkata: A special PMLA court on Wednesday warned former Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee that his bail could be cancelled if he failed to attend hearings. Chatterjee, who got bail a fortnight ago, attracted the court's ire after he ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Applying for new voter ID? Keep these papers ready next month

    Kolkata: For the first time, the Election Commission (EC) has mandated new voter applicants to furnish Annexure IV, a declaration form similar to Annexure III, the SIR form, along with Form 6 for inclusion of their names in the ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    SIR bid to bring NRC, pushing people to brink of death: CM

    Kolkata: People were on the verge of death, because of "CAA and SIR", Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleged on Wednesday. She went on to add that questions were being raised on citizenship and voting rights only because there was ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    720g baby becomes tiniest to undergo cardiac procedure

    Kolkata: A premature newborn girl, weighing only 720 g, underwent a cardiac procedure—that is usually considered for babies only after they have attained at least 5 kg weight—on the eighth day after birth. The minimally-invasive procedure was done to ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal ranks 2nd in India in drawing foreign tourists

    Kolkata: Bengal has emerged as the second most favourite destination, after Maharashtra, for international tourists visiting India, figures released by the Union tourism ministry in the India Tourism Data Compendium 2025 revealed.In domestic travel, the state ranked seventh behind ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Airport takes steps to speed up bag check ahead of winter rush

    Kolkata: Ahead of the winter rush, Kolkata airport is implementing multiple steps to streamline flyer movement through the terminal, with an emphasis on faster screening of bags to reduce wait time during security checks.While the Central Industrial Security Force ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    5-day correction window to help worried BLOs tide over edit-button problems

    Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) is set to offer a five-day 'correction window' to Booth Level Officers (BLOs) even as the ‘edit' option in the BLO app — removed four days ago — remains unavailable.The handful of BLOs who ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    JU delays ICC poll to elect PhD scholars’ rep

    Kolkata: Jadavpur University on Wednesday rescheduled the election for internal complaints committee (ICC), to find a PhD scholars' representative for the panel, from Nov 27 to Dec 2 for "logistical problems". The ICC handles sexual harassment complaints and other ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    CU principals back in syndicate after VC shift

    Kolkata: Siuli Sarkar, principal of Lady Brabourne College, and Sunanda Goenka, principal of Jogesh Chandra Choudhuri Law College, who had resigned from Calcutta University's syndicate, its highest decision-making body, are set to return to it. They on Thursday will ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Mass Gita chanting event on Dec 7

    Kolkata: Sanatan Sanskriti Sansad, which had earlier organized "Lokkho Kanthe Gita Path" in Kolkata, will hold a similar programme to chant shlokas from the Gita on Dec 7. The programme is likely to witness the presence of a host ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Raj Bhavan letter wishes good health upon dead MLA

    Kolkata: Governor C V Ananda Bose on Wednesday set up a committee to probe a faux pas in which a letter from the Raj Bhavan reached the home of deceased TMC MLA from Tehatta, Tapas Saha, wishing him good ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    11 days after blaze, Ezra St traders flag illegal parking, wire concerns

    Kolkata: Over a week after a devastating fire gutted several hundred shops on the Ezra Street—Kolkata's largest market for electrical goods—several market associations and trader groups wrote to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the police. They have urged ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Attack on ED: CBI arrests Shahjahan aide

    Kolkata: CBI on Wednesday arrested Abul Hossen Molla, aka Duronto, a close aide of suspended Trinamool strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, in connection with the alleged attack on ED officers at Sandeshkhali on Jan 5 last year. A mob attacked the ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Supreme Court sends back SSC cases to Cal High Court

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sent back a host of cases related to the ongoing State Level Selection Test (SLST), being conducted by the Bengal school service commission, to Calcutta High Court with a few observations. The high ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Harassed, barred from flight over weight mismatch: Flyer

    Kolkata: A Delhi resident has alleged she was harassed and barred from a flight by staffers of a private airline at Kolkata airport on Nov 23 after they claimed her carry-on luggage exceeded the weight limit. The flyer, Amrita ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    EC seeks report from CP, CM backs agitating BLOs

    Kolkata: Taking a ‘serious note' of the Nov 24 agitation at the Bengal chief electoral officers' office, the Election Commission on Wednesday sought a report from the Kolkata police commissioner within 48 hours. CM Mamata Banerjee, however, backed the ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Delegation Alleges ‘Large-Scale Manipulation Of Poll Rolls In SIR’

    Kolkata: A Bengal BJP team, which met the Election Commission on Wednesday, urged the poll panel to clarify the status of those who had taken shelter in India to escape religious persecution in Bangladesh. In its memorandum to EC, ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    BLO suffers cardiac arrest, kin blame SIR stress

    A 54-year-old BLO from North 24 Parganas, Sushanta Tikadar, suffered a cardiac arrest while working on SIR documents at his home in Bongaon on Wednesday. Tikadar is undergoing treatment at a hospital."He was under tremendous stress due to SIR ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Film-makers question Nandan screening rota

    KOLKATA: Social media has for two weeks been abuzz with complaints from two film-makers about Nandan screenings. Arjunn Dutta, whose ‘Deep Fridge' won the Best Bengali Feature Film at the National Awards, questioned why his film was slotted for ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    Former Armyman arrested for killing wife after years of marital discord

    Kolkata: A 52-year-old former armyman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing his wife following years of marital discord in Barrackpore. Police said the woman died after being struck forcefully on the back of her head with a wooden ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    BLO, BLAs flag identity forgery

    Kolkata: Alerted by the BLO and the BLAs, a woman on Wednesday alleged that she discovered forgery in her and her husband's name while submitting her SIR forms. A case of forgery and document manipulation has been registered at ...

    27 November 2025 Times of India
    On sinking island, BLOs & BLAs burn midnight oil to finish SIR task

    Ghoramara: Four booth level officers (BLOs) assigned to carry out enumeration on Ghoramara island, one of the last outposts in the Bay of Bengal and part of the Sundarbans estuary with no electricity or reliable mobile network, are literally ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Kathak solo 'Adishakti staged in Kolkata

    Kolkata witnessed a captivating Kathak performance on Friday, November 21, at the ICCR Ho Chi Minh Society, Camac Street. The production, titled 'Adishakti', presented a narrative-based Kathak recital exploring the divine relationship between Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, alongside ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Minimum temperatures in Bengal fall by 2-3 deg C: IMD

    Minimum temperatures at several places in West Bengal fell by two to three degrees Celsius on Tuesday, while dry weather would prevail over the state for the next one week, the IMD said.There will not be any large change ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Babri posters flood Murshidabad: Humayun Kabir’s Dec 6 claim sparks row; TMC distances itself, BJP cries 'appeasement'

    KOLKATA: Posters announcing the construction of a ‘Babri Masjid’ have surfaced across West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, days after Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir claimed that a foundation stone would be laid on December 6 in Beldanga. The development has ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Transforming lives in Mahammad Bazar through safe drinking water, community leadership

    KOLKATA: In Mahammad Bazar, Birbhum, West Bengal, every household now has access to safe drinking water through functional household tap connections, thanks to the leadership of Smt. Uma Banerjee, chairperson of the Village Water and Sanitation Committee (VWSC). Contaminated ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    CINI celebrates 25 years of adolescent empowerment and advocacy

    KOLKATA: At the joint celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Adolescent Resource Centre (ARC) and the 50th anniversary of the Child in Need Institute (CINI), Indrani Bhattacharyya, Chief Executive Officer of CINI, emphasised the urgent need for parents ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Moving bus catches fire on NH-16

    Howrah: A fire broke out on a fast-moving bus on the National Highway 16 at Bally in Howrah on Tuesday morning. The blaze was brought under control after efforts by the fire department, and no casualty was reported.Around 9 ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    1 lakh gold chain snatched in S Kol

    Kolkata: A 33-year-old woman, Hinal Bhowmick, reportedly lost her gold chain on Sunday evening when a man snatched it near Munna Tea Shop in Santoshpur before fleeing. The Santoshpur Avenue resident was reportedly chatting with a few neighbours close ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    New bus route from Sealdah to Santragachhi

    Kolkata: Commuters will now benefit from a new bus route, HB9, which will connect Santragachhi to Howrah station, en route Sealdah via MG Road. This will facilitate access to the East-West Metro and Sealdah from Santragachhi. Initially, 12 buses ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Copter glitch forces CM to travel by road, operator served show-cause notice

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee was forced to abandon her scheduled helicopter travel on Tuesday after the aircraft failed to arrive at Howrah's Dumurjala Stadium at the last moment, compelling her to undertake the journey to Bongaon by road. The ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Firm to revise beautification plan to restore greenery at Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: The landscape consultancy firm appointed by a private organisation to ‘beautify' McPherson Square has decided to tweak the original plan to make way for more greenery.The decision comes after widespread criticism for cutting down trees and replacing large ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    After Tolly screens, SRFTI alumni leave their mark on Goa film fest

    KOLKATA: On Tuesday, the Centre felicitated the third and fourth batches of SRFTI alumni at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. Back in Tollywood, three SRFTI students are making waves with their commercial successes. Abhijit Sen, ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    BLOs submit list of 13 demands to CEO after midnight drama

    Kolkata: The midnight drama-cum-protest at the office of the West Bengal chief electoral officer on the third floor of the NS Road building continued on Tuesday with members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee protesting against the stress on ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Trolls to deepfake: Navigating gender-based online violence

    Kolkata: Organisations dedicated to combating violence and discrimination against women are now battling an even more insidious form of violence that has found a new space: online. Swayam, along with NGOs such as Aman Network and Talash, launched its ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Denied chopper, CM drives to Matua heartland, slams SIR

    Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's foray into the Matua heartland of Thakurnagar on Tuesday had an unexpected deviation from the written script but packed enough ammo and drama to indicate that the battle for the Matua votes in Bengal's ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    After initial ‘yes’, N Kol condo withdraws poll booth approval

    Kolkata: Residents of only one out of nine condos, who agreed to be a polling booth in north Kolkata, withdrew their approval after learning that no other complex has yet reverted to the EC proposal for setting up a ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Howrah pool car had no fitness cert, driver had health issues

    Howrah: The death of three schoolchildren in Uluberia on Monday has triggered widespread outrage after investigators confirmed that the pool car involved in the crash was running without a fitness certificate, had defective brakes, re-soled worn-out tyres, and an ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    CM stops convoy seeing protest, assures inquiry

    Kolkata: While returning from the Matua heartland on Tuesday, CM Mamata Banerjee stopped her convoy briefly seeing a protest in Barasat. The protesters were demonstrating over the alleged theft of an eye from the body of a deceased man ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Monitor BLAs’ work, Hakim tells councillors

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Tuesday held a meeting with the KMC councillors regarding the ongoing SIR exercise across 144 wards. Hakim instructed the councillors to maintain communication with the BLAs of their respective wards and to observe whether ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Missing TMC worker shot dead in Malda

    Malda: A 31-year-old Trinamool worker and coal trader, Wabaidullah Khan, who had been missing since Monday evening, was found dead in Malda's Kaliachak on Tuesday. His body had a bullet injury and police suspect he was fired upon from ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman attacks three with scissors

    Kolkata: Three persons were injured — one of whom was stabbed — after a woman, who was staying as a paying guest at a facility near Lake Avenue off Rashbehari Avenue, attacked the property owners with scissors over rent ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    After Bengal’s coal belt, wolves clicked in rice bowl

    Kolkata: After Bengal's coal-industrial belt of West Burdwan's Durgapur, wolves have been spotted in Bengal's rice bowl — East Burdwan.An ongoing camera trap-study on the presence and distribution of wolves in East Burdwan has unearthed the presence of a ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Body of fisherman who died in B’desh jail handed to kin

    Kolkata: The body of the Kakdwip fisherman who died in a Bangladeshi jail was handed over to his family on Tuesday night, 10 days after his death. Babul Das (Boba), the fisherman, was mute and hearing-impaired. His brother and ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman loses arm in New Town accident

    Kolkata: A 25-year-old woman riding pillion on her way to the office lost her right arm on Tuesday morning after the strap of her backpack got entangled with an electric bus. She was pulled off the bike and under ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Acting like TMC militia’: In letter to CEC, Suvendu questions Bengal police officers’ neutrality

    Kolkata: Three police officers in Bengal were acting as Trinamool's ‘private militia', alleged leader of the opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari in an email to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday. Adhikari also raised questions about the ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    HC orders state audit of Rose Valley assets panel

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday instructed the state finance department to conduct a forensic audit of the accounts of the Rose Valley Assets Disposal Committee. The HC had earlier asked the Sebi to carry out an audit ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Flights from western India undergo ‘volcano checks’

    Kolkata: Air India on Tuesday cancelled a morning flight from Mumbai to Kolkata and back after the aircraft was grounded along with several others for urgent inspections. This occurred as multiple Indian carriers began precautionary checks on jets that ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops warn of fake traffic challan links

    Kolkata: Stay cautious the next time you receive an SMS asking you to pay your traffic challan. Check if the link provided to you for payment is genuine, the Kolkata Police warned on Tuesday on all its social media ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Senior citizens lose lakhs in life cert scams

    Kolkata: In a rise of cybercrime involving fake life certificate updates, senior citizens are being targeted by fraudsters. After Bidhannagar Police, Kolkata Police has reported multiple cases where pensioners have fallen victim to such scams.Dulal Halder, a 62-year-old resident ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Rajarhat man loses 1cr in digital arrest

    Kolkata: Two fraudsters from Mysuru, who posed as Bangalore Police and Karnataka Police Crime Branch officers, looted more than Rs 1 crore from a 74-year-old Rajarhat resident while keeping him under ‘digital arrest' in a New Town hotel for ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Tiff over 2k led to Kasba hotel murder, suspect cops

    Kolkata: The murder of a CA inside a Kasba hotel by a couple, Dhruba Mitra (20) and Komal Saha, could have been for as little as Rs 2,000. The accused on Tuesday claimed that an additional Rs 2,000 was ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Old age, ill health cannot reduce punishment for inhuman act: HC

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to shorten the life imprisonment sentence of two octogenarians despite health complications. The duo was convicted for killing a man and hurting his family in 1998. While turning down the appeal ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    Doc posting: Group marches to Swasthya Bhawan

    Kolkata: Despite the Calcutta High Court verdict, the health department is yet to comply with the order placing anaesthesiologist Aniket Mahata at RG Kar Medical College as a senior resident. The Voice of Abhaya, Voice of Women, an organisation ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    In times of stress, some BLOs beat deadline, return to school duty

    Kolkata: Despite the stress, several BLOs have completed 100% digitisation of SIR enumeration forms. In Kolkata, Soma Roy Mandal, a 40-year-old booth level officer in Maniktala, was the first BLO to complete her work in 16 days since the ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    At 16.4°C, Kol sees third coldest Nov day in 10 yrs

    Kolkata: The minimum temperature dipped to the season's lowest in Kolkata on Tuesday. At 16.4 degrees, this was also the third coldest Nov day for the city in 10 years. The maximum temperature too plunged to the season's lowest ...

    26 November 2025 Times of India
    National Library of India, Dravidian University forge new academic partnership

    The National Library of India and Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, formalised a new cooperation framework today to expand academic collaboration in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The agreement aims to strengthen internship opportunities, research exchange, ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    IIT Kharagpur unveils postage stamp, initiates discussion on Houston outreach centre to mark 75 years of journey

    SHANTINIKETAN: IIT Kharagpur unveiled a special postage stamp by India Post to mark the glorious journey of the institute that began at the historic Hijli Detention Centre in 1951. During the event, the institute also initiated discussions on the ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Labourers return woman’s 10L jewellery lost at stn

    Kolkata: Four migrant day labourers from Bihar set an example of honesty by returning gold jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh belonging to a bank officer. The officer, Rupashree Sikdar from Konnagar, had mistakenly left a small bag containing the ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Another gem lost, Dharmendra bids adieu to 59-yr bond with Kol

    KOLKATA: Dharmendra's 59-year bond with Kolkata drew to a close with his passing, days before the release of his final film, co-written by a Bengali. His journey began in 1966 with his Bengali debut in Jagannath Chatterjee's ‘Paari', adapted ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    In 2nd letter to CEC in 4 days, CM flags hiring, booths at housing complexes

    Kolkata: In her second letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in less than a week, CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday sought the CEC's intervention on two recent EC decisions — employing an agency to bring in 1,000 data ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Withdraw case or...’: Law college rape survivor’s dad gets threat

    Kolkata: The father of the girl who was gang-raped inside her law college on June 25 was threatened last week by bike-borne men who told him to "Drop the case, or else…". The student's father lodged a case with ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    BLOs march to CEO office, protest ‘inhuman’ SIR stress

    Kolkata: Booth level officers (BLOs) on Monday took to the streets and held a demonstration outside the office of the chief electoral officer to protest the "inhumane stress" they are working under while carrying out the special intensive revision ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Mahakal Mandir & convention centre in N Bengal get cabinet nod

    Kolkata: From the Mahakal Mandir in Siliguri to a convention centre in Dabgram, the Bengal cabinet on Monday approved multiple projects for north Bengal.The cabinet, chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee, approved the establishment of a Mahakal temple and a ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Kasba hotel murder premeditated, blackmail, robbery motives: Cops

    Kolkata: The murder of a chartered accountant at a Kasba hotel, which was discovered early on Saturday, could be premeditated, possibly a result of an attempted robbery, investigators said. According to Rupesh Kumar, joint CP (crime & traffic), the ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘We didn’t even know we owned it’: How a 1982-era Boeing survived as ‘ghost plane’ at Kolkata airport; 13 years of parking costs Air India nearly Rs 1 crore

    KOLKATA: A Boeing 737 that had been lying idle at Kolkata airport for more than a decade has revealed an unusual oversight: Air India did not know the aircraft was still on its books.The 43-year-old Boeing 737-200, parked since ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Mahindra’s renaissance post on Kol goes viral

    Kolkata: Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra hailed the development in New Town on X, saying that with the recent changes, Kolkata deserved more attention from travellers."I was also very pleasantly surprised to hear about New Town. Perhaps because I ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Next 150 days decisive for TMC: Abhishek to 24k workers at meet

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee told party workers on Monday that the next 150 days would be decisive for the party. Speaking at a virtual meeting attended by around 24,000 party members, including senior netas, Banerjee ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    At 3,112 m altitude, endangered musk deer clicked in Bengal for first time

    Kolkata: In a first, Bengal has recorded the photographic evidence of the endangered musk deer. It has been clicked in Neora Valley National Park during a pan-India assessment of red pandas. It was believed that the species had gone ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Man dies of heart attack, kin blame ‘stress’ over SIR

    Midnapore: Forty-year-old Bablu Hembram, a resident of West Midnapore's Pingla, died on Sunday morning following a cardiac arrest. His family alleged he had been under severe stress after learning that his parents were not in the 2002 SIR list ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Never said BJP doesn’t want Muslim votes: Suvendu

    Kolkata: BJP senior and Bengal assembly's leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari said on Monday that he had never said BJP doesn't want Muslim votes, but Muslims don't vote for BJP in Bengal."I never said BJP doesn't want Muslim votes ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    950 wheeled waste bins for New Town

    The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will introduce 950 wheeled waste bins of 240-litre capacity each at different locations in New Town. It will engage an agency to lift all kinds of waste and transport it to Dhapa. ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    HC sets aside Pocso verdict over ‘contradictions’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside a Bankura trial court order sentencing an accused to three years of imprisonment under the Pocso Act. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, in his order, acquitted the accused of all charges."I am of ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Boeing, going, gone: 100ft B737-200 aircraft, lying forgotten at Kolkata airport for 13 years, sets out on 1,900km journey

    Kolkata: On Nov 14, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft that was lying idle at Kolkata airport for over 13 years finally rolled out and headed to Bengaluru on a tractor trailer, where it will be used for the training of ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    N Bengal in focus at cabinet meet, Mahakal temple gets nod

    Kolkata: From the Mahakal Mandir in Siliguri to a convention centre in Dabgram, the Bengal cabinet on Monday approved multiple projects for north Bengal.The cabinet, chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee, approved the establishment of a Mahakal temple and a ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ISI faculty, students raise protest pitch on draft bill

    Kolkata: Faculty members, staff and students of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Monday raised the pitch against the draft ISI bill, claiming that the proposal was a meticulously designed move to snatch the institute's autonomy.Disquiet has been brewing over ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC asks agency to plant 25 big trees to re-green Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: Officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation parks department have asked the agency that hacked trees at McPherson Square to plant 20-25 big trees, and many more smaller ones, to restore the green cover at the park at the Theatre ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC targets dust, to get 40 e-sweepers by 2026

    Kolkata: In a bid to fight air pollution in the city's lanes and bylanes, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to buy small-sized electric mechanical sweepers. According to a KMC solid waste management department official, initially, 20 such ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Teachers on SIR job: Some schools bring forward, some delay exams

    Kolkata: Battling an acute teacher shortage with most teachers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) job, schools are either advancing their examination schedule or deferring it to manage crisis of examination invigilators. Several schools started final exams on Monday ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
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